Yes totally serious. You really believe the two are not related? And are 100% sure that she had other mental health issues? You cannot possibly know that. But what is 100% clear is she took her life 3 days after the event, I am no Miss Marple but it is clear the two are related. These people who say she must have had other mental issues are judgemental and are belittling the nurse and the effect it had on her. The DJ,s did not expect to happen but it did and they need to accept responsibility. I repeat thick and heartless.

I think you may be a little thick too caro TBH. I don't think people saying she must have had other mental health issues are being judgemental at all. They/I are being realistic.

Its entirely possible she did have mental health issues. And what?

Surely that is a good enough reason to NOT phones someones place of work and put their job at risk. Because the person you are taking the piss out of, humilating and using is someone you don't know, so you can not predict and outcome.

As a person with or without mental health issues she has a right to work. She has a right not to be broadcast over the entire planet as a joke.

it's why the trashy papers have readers, and many of the monthly / fortnightly {dare I say women's} mags and to some extent the broadsheets. Obviously gossip is most common but humiliation and embarrassment are probably close behind. Only way to show disapproval (which is something the public rarely do, however often they comment on the internet) is to simply boycott such media.

They claim they 'give us what we want' but in reality they dish up whatever they can and because people keep the circulation numbers high, or a particular story gets high readership (eg Princess Di, or the McCann's, after the disappearance of Madeleine, or some other story), they feel the numbers justify whatever stories they are publishing.

Letters to the editors whenever you see stories which are judgemental and damaging to someone's well-being might alert the staff to what is and isn't acceptable, but better to save your money and not buy the trashy things in the first place.

However we can guess that this did contribute. It seems very likely that either with or without prior issues, this was a contributing factor. I think for that reason alone the DJs / Station etc should be apologising. The fact that they apparently cant because its admiting liability is just another symptom of the crap situation.

If a car skids on a patch of ice, and lands near the edge of a cliff, and then another couple do the same and each car knocks it closer to falling off the edge, and then I come along and skid and am the one car too many that ends up pushing the original car off the edge to their death, is it my fault they are dead? No. Not completely. Have I contributed to their death? Yes. Could I have forseen the consequences? No? Would I feel shockingly bad? Yes. Would I apologise to their families. You bet the fuck I would.

I think that actually the worse thing about this, is if she hadnt taken her own life, we wouldnt be hearing about it. There would be no uproar about it if she had just lost her job, or had a mental breakdown. Thats shocking.

The station should not have aired the tape without the hospitals permission. They tried 5 times, big wow. They then decided that permission or not they would play the tape, and thats wrong. They had no idea how any of the people involved would act. They had no knowledge if ay of the people involved were "delicate" and if they could / could not take this "joke".

I still firmly put the blame on the dj's and the radio station here - there is no excuse for their behaviour, whether or not there had been any fall out it was a shitty thing to do. I have yet to come across anyone who found it funny, although I'm sure some people did. Playing pranks on people you don't know is malicious - did they actually pause to think about what might happen to the people involved (warning, sacking)? There was no way nothing would have come from their stupid call (that's terrible English, but I hope you get what I mean?!).

Agree with frostyfingers The DJs and radio station showed no concern about the consequences. It is obvious to anyone that there would be very unpleasant consequences for the staff involved even if they did not lose their jobs. The prank has backfired on them. Serves them right.

So after being villified publicly for days, the two DJs decide they can take no more, there is no way out and kill themselves. Who will be to blame for that?

Themselves and the radio station.

The DJs could not have predicted this. But doing this sort of thing has consequences. The consequences have been massive in this case. The fact is the calling someone and humiliating them will have consequences.

amber when a teenager kill themselves becacuse of bullying, do you feel the bully is blameless?